The three of us have been conducting fieldwork in Arabian Peninsula cities (namely, Dubai, Riyadh, and Doha) over nearly two decades. Our experiences as ethnographers and academics inspired conversations about conducting fieldwork within a “field” that is marke..
Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora
Ahmed Kanna is an anthropologist based in Oakland, California. He is the author of Dubai, The City as Corporation (Minnesota, 2011) and the editor, with Xiangming Chen, of Rethinking Global Urbanism (Routledge, 2012), as well as numerous scholarly and non-academic articles. He is currently working on the intersection of Marxist praxis, pedagogy, and anthropology and his most recent writings appear in Left Voice.
Amelie Le Renard is a permanent researcher at CNRS. She is interested in gender studies, postcolonial feminism, and intersectionality. She has published A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Space, Power and Reform in Saudi Arabia (Stanford University Press, 2014), and, in French, Le privilège occidental. Travail, intimités et hiérarchies postcoloniales à Dubaï (Presses de Sciences Po, 2019; English translation forthcoming) and, with Abir Kréfa, Genre et féminismes au Moyen-Orient et au Maghreb (Editions Amsterdam, 2020).
Neha Vora is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Lafayette College. Her research and teaching interests include migration, citizenship, higher education, South Asian and Muslim diasporas, gender, liberalism, political economy, and the state, in the Arabian Peninsula region and in the United States. She is the author of Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2013) and Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar (Stanford University Press, 2018).